The Defense Secretary has a private plane to fly him home every weekend

A chair of the White House Council on Women and Girls has her own Secret Service detail

The president and his family are about to take a nearly 4 million dollar 20 day vacation to Hawaii
(what fiscal cliff?) The residents in the Hawaiian neighborhood will have to deal with a sealed off subdivision, closed beaches, and 40 car presidential motorcades (carbon emissions? please)

Last year alone the U.S. presidency cost American taxpayers $1.4 billion. Over the same period, the entire royal family cost British taxpayers about $57 million.

Do you really believe that Obama has a guy who only walks a dog at 100,000 a year? Can you support it somehow without using a vague republican rag stating it? I'd like to know who it is and what all of his job responsibilities are.

Obama is hardly the first president to run up massive expenditures on the taxpayer’s dime. According to a government analysis of the White House’s expenditures under George W. Bush, total spending on White House operations reached nearly $1.6 billion in 2008.